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Rick Shaw has been selling insurance for 15 years, but his real claim to fame comes from his previous career as an athletic trainer. For years, Shaw worked with some of the biggest names in professional sports, from Chris Ballard to Tony Gwynn to Larry Bird. Shaw grew up in Plainfield, attended Plainfield High School, and currently serves as Chairman of the Plainfield Chamber of Commerce Board. Since the seventh grade, Shaw wanted to be an athletic trainer. As much as he loved sports, he felt he lacked a few good things to pursue sports past high school.
“I was too short, too fat, too slow, and I couldn’t jump,” Shaw says, laughing. “That limits your sports career.” The school’s basketball coach at the time got Shaw involved as a manager at the high school, taping ankles and helping with minor injuries. He never dreamed his humble beginnings would lead him not only to brushing shoulders with some of the biggest names in sports but becoming lifelong friends with them. It all started after high school. Shaw went on to become a manager and student trainer at
Indiana State University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in health and physical education. He returned for a fifth year as the administrative coach and assistant athletic trainer for the Indiana State Sycamores, one of the school’s greatest men’s basketball teams in history. During the 1978-1979 season, the team was led by Larry Bird, a senior at the time, and undefeated in the regular season. However, they lost the championship game to Michigan State, led by Magic Johnson. Shaw still considers his experience one for the books, having just recently reunited with the team for a 40th anniversary weekend in
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Terre Haute this summer. “We had a wonderful time,” Shaw says. “These are lifelong friendships. It truly feels like time hasn’t passed, even if it’s been 10 years. It’s like that with all those guys. Everybody likes each other.” Shaw was particularly impacted by his longtime friendship with Larry Bird. “You can’t talk about me without talking about Bird,” Shaw says. “He’s always been great to me and has opened more doors for me in my life that he doesn’t even know about. He’s just like your neighbor, just a regular guy.” In fact, Shaw’s connection with Bird is showcased at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. “There is a four-foot by six-foot photo of Larry Bird on the bench with his head in his hands at the Championship game,” Shaw says, referring to the 1979 NCAA Championship game. “My whole back and shoulder are in the photo. I was kneeling in front of him. My daughter thought that was so cool.” Later in his career, when Shaw was living in Texas, the San Antonio Spurs were in town, and Bird gave him a call to see if he was going to the game. Bird offered him two free tickets, one each for Shaw and his wife. However, when they showed up to the game, they found that seats were actually 10 seats apart with Cedric ‘Cornbread’ Maxwell, a forward for the Boston Celtics at the time, and his entire family sitting between them. “I said to Bird, ‘What gives?’” Shaw says. “Bird told me, ‘Hey, the tickets were free. Shut up.’ We had such a good time at that game though.” That wasn’t the last Shaw would see of sports’ biggest names. After his stint at ISU, Shaw became an athletic trainer for the professional baseball team Pittsburgh Pirates and then the San Diego Padres, serving as Tony Gwynn’s very first athletic trainer in his professional career. Gwynn, nicknamed “Mr. Padre,” was a right fielder who earned
eight batting titles, tied for the most in MLB history. “He’s a very good guy,” Shaw says. “Everyone warned me that he would be very difficult to work with, but he was the total opposite. He was very easy to work with. He was such a talent.” Later in his career, Shaw became the head athletic trainer at Texas City High School, where he became friends with yet another significant sports figure in Indianapolis. Chris Ballard, current General Manager of the Indianapolis Colts, was the quarterback of the Texas City High School Team. Shaw formed a unique connection with Ballard because of their family background. “We gravitated together,” Shaw says. “His father wasn’t in the picture, so his life and my life were about the same because my father wasn’t in the picture either.”
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Shaw still remembers how hard Ballard worked at football. He recalls giving Ballard, a severe asthmatic, breathing treatments during tough practices in the extremely humid air near Galveston Bay. “He was the best,” Shaw says of Ballard. “He grew up in football and his grandpa was our football coordinator.” As Shaw’s personal life took on more importance with the arrival of a daughter, he wanted to move back to Indiana. He ended up leaving Texas City High school during Ballard’s senior year, something Ballard still gives him grief for all these years later. Last November, Ballard spoke at the Annual Chamber dinner and mentioned how Shaw left him during the most important year of his high school career. “He still won’t let me forget it,” Shaw says. Shaw settled down as an athletic trainer at Rose-Hulman for five years, but the constant
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traveling for games was taking a toll. Shaw’s good friend, Steve Reed, who had been a guard on the’79 Sycamores team, offered Shaw a job starting a sports medicine program at Terre Haute Regional. Shaw still marvels how the connections from athletic training have followed him all his life and paved paths he never saw coming. “You can’t plot this stuff out,” Shaw says shrugging. “I consider myself one of the luckiest guys in the world.”
After more than eight years in the hospital sports medicine business, Shaw decided to switch gears. “I was kind of a free agent,” he says. “I looked at everything. I looked at buying a bar, I looked at selling smoothies out of my trunk, I looked at buying a McDonald’s. Insurance made sense. It’s a lot like athletic training. You get to help people prepare for bad things to happen, and when they do, you help them rehabilitate to get back to where they were.”
Shaw loves being back in Hendricks County, serving on the local Chamber of Commerce, Optimist Board and being involved with the local schools. Shaw works hard at improving the world around him. His motto in life is, “Dreams Don’t Have Deadlines.” “Have your dreams,” Shaw says. “Don’t throw them away. Hang on to them and set yourself up to follow those things. Do the things that interest you because you’re not living someone else’s life. You’re living your life. Make it as fun as you want.”
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The heart of bustling Plainfield houses a tasting room of Country Heritage Winery, owned by Jennifer and Jeremy Lutter. But they, and their wine, actually originated in northern Indiana, and it all began with the simple act of growing produce. Jennifer and Jeremy both grew up on family farms. Jeremy especially has a deep love for growing basically anything. “We raised corn, beans, a lot of produce, and we even started a u-pick blueberry and blackberry farm,” Jennifer says. The u-pick berries turned out to be pivotal in their business. When the fruit that didn’t get picked went soft, they sold it to local wineries to make wine. In the process, the Lutters got
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Trafficking Hotline). This number is up from 96 in 2017 and 86 in 2017.
If you would have told Hendricks County Resident Jessica Evans 10 years ago that by 2020, she would be the founder of one of the state’s leading anti-trafficking organizations, she would have laughed.
While Evans said the numbers are going up most likely because entities are getting better at reporting these situations, it still barely scratches the surface of this multi-billion-dollar industry.
“I would have never dared to lead anything,” Evans says. “I simply picked up a book to learn about something I was interested in. And now here we are.” Evans lives with her husband, Trevor, and their 18-month-old Joshua on the east side of Brownsburg, and she is the founder of Purchased, a local non-profit committed to helping communities fight human trafficking, the illegal trade in human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor. While the term human trafficking has become a media buzz word, its presence is very real in the state of Indiana, 142 cases having been reported this year alone (according to the National Human
Purchased’s goal is to raise awareness through education. Staff and volunteers speak at churches, businesses and schools to educate the public on trafficking. Their programs include teaching statewide curriculums to local at-risk youth, training mentors to walk alongside trafficking survivors and providing support to families of survivors. It wasn’t the statistics that originally drew her in, however. Evans graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2003. She taught kindergarten and first grade in Pike Township for nine years. In 2007, she became interested in the topic of human trafficking. Although it was a sobering topic, Evans had always been drawn to the marginalized.
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As she was researching the topic of trafficking, Evans participated in a mission trip to Nepal, a country in South Asia, through a local nonprofit. The trip allowed her to meet and work with women who had been rescued from a life of trafficking and were learning trades, such as making jewelry and soap, in order to support themselves and their families. Evans vividly remembers one woman in particular. She was young, in her late teens and stunningly beautiful with shiny dark hair and a dazzling smile. She was making jewelry at the ministry Evans and her friends visited and her joy was palpable. “We were laughing with her and sharing moments together,” Evans says. “I remember thinking, how can you live through what you lived through and still laugh?’” The trip was transformative for Evans. “It put this thing I had been learning about in the flesh,” Evans says. “These girls, literally like you and me, have been through unimaginable things. When I came home, I had to reconcile what to do with that. It was no longer an issue ‘out there.’” Once Evans was back in the states, she took her burden to her small group at church and asked for their ideas and prayers. Within a few months, she felt God calling her to organize a concert to raise money to help anti human trafficking efforts. She gathered a few friends for a breakfast meeting, and by the end of the day their benefit concert was slotted for the fall of 2008. Several hundred concert-goers showed up to hear local artists play, and money was raised for Love 146, a national non-profit that offers survivor care and prevention training. However, when it was over, Evans and her friends didn’t account for the sheer number of people who would approach them after the concert, asking how they could help or get involved. Jessica & Trevor Evans, & son Joshua
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Evans pursued another concert the next year, but this time added a movie and discussion night the week before the concert, showing a two-part documentary about trafficking. Soon, raising money didn’t feel like enough. They began volunteering with Indiana Protection for Abused and Trafficked Humans Task Force (IPATH). Then, Evans and her friends were being asked to speak locally about trafficking in churches and businesses. After attending a Love 146 conference, Evans became overwhelmed and decided to dump all her thoughts into her journal to process everything she was learning. “Those notes became our mission and vision statement as an organization,” Evans says. Evans and her team, made up of mostly teachers, decided to press into that vision, naming their group Purchased after scripture in the bible that inspired Evans to dedicate her life to reaching out to at-risk youth and trafficking survivors. The group got their official non-profit status in 2011. Things never slowed down. From movie and discussion nights to book clubs to guest speakers, running Purchased was nearly turning into a full-time job for Evans, who was still a full-time kindergarten teacher in Pike Township schools. The load was taking its toll. With the encouragement of friends, she quit her job and was hired fulltime in 2015. Over the years, Evans, along with the help of her board, guided
Purchased through expanding past education. They began getting trained in My Life My Choice, a curriculum aimed at preventing sexual exploitation in youths by teaching them goals, healthy relationships, perceptions about the commercial sex industry and skills to help reduce their risk of exploitation. This curriculum is for at risk youth, as well as those who have been trafficked and is taught in schools, residential facilities and group homes. Evans helped teach their first MLMC class in 2014 at Paddock View Residential Facility in Marion, the average age of the class being 16 years old. It was the first time Purchased had been able to work with survivors in Indianapolis. The experience shook Evans. Students shared their stories in journals for the teachers to read in between classes. “We read the journals and wept over them each week,” Evans recalls. “It was so humbling and so awesome. We just bonded with those girls.” From then on, Evans did her best to keep her finger on the pulse of what need Purchased could fill. The next need: helping support girls once they’ve taken the MLMC class or have been rescued from trafficking. This led to Purchased writing a mentorship curriculum called Allies. Allies is designed to train volunteer mentors to walk alongside survivors, offering unconditional friendship and support, something
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many survivors never had. “Case managers come to an end,” Evans says. “Therapists come to an end. And services end at age 18. Many of these girls have no one. We wanted to provide someone to walk them through all of that.” Allies mentors link their mentees to appropriate community resources and help with academic or career skills. Mentors are also simply there to offer a listening ear, have fun and be a positive presence through the ups and downs of life. For these girls, extreme trauma and often family abandonment they endured at very young ages make it difficult to make wise decisions and commit to a successful path. Quarterly, Purchased provides a gathering for all mentors and mentees, offering painting classes, cooking lessons, cookouts and holiday parties. Mentors are trusted friends for their mentees. Purchased also offers a support group called Thrive, designed specifically for parents and caregivers of trafficking survivors. Purchased still heavily focuses on community education, speaking with businesses, schools, churches, colleges and other groups about the signs of trafficking. They regularly hold fundraising events, such
as their annual Kick For One, a community kickball tournament, Illuminate, a silent auction and dinner held every spring and other seasonal campaigns to encourage involvement. Evans wants people to know that no one is immune to trafficking. “The first girl we ever had in our mentorship program was from Hamilton County,” Evans says. “A common factor of trafficking is relational poverty, and you can have that wherever you live. It’s just a lack of healthy relationships.” That relational aspect is what Purchased strives to provide for survivors. Two hundred and fifty girls have taken the MLMC class, and there are 15 mentors in Indianapolis right now matched with mentees who have survived trafficking. “It’s very difficult to hear these stories,” Evans says. “But there is hope. You can make a difference, whether it’s prevention, giving resources, knowing the red flags or spending time with our mentees. You’re providing healthy relationships that they wouldn’t have otherwise. And that makes all the difference.”
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Local Restaurant Celebrates 30th Anniversary In Hendricks County Writer / Jamie Hergott Photographer / Amy Payne & PMK West
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arry Paynter chalks up his lifetime of success to hard work and a lot of luck. The 74-year-old owner of the Coachman, a full-service restaurant and bar in Plainfield, has seen a lifetime of good decisions and mistakes. But basking in the 30th year of his restaurant, he knows the Coachman is certainly not a mistake. “We aren’t just bettering our all-time record year,” Paynter says with a shrug. “We are crushing it. Business is fabulous.” It might come as a surprise then that at the end of the year, Paynter is stepping back and handing his restaurant over to his stepson Brad Yarnell. But Paynter’s looking forward to the change. “I feel great about it,” Paynter says. “He’ll do a wonderful job.” Paynter has seen the Coachman from its beginnings on paper to being a restaurant standing literally in the middle of a field to what it is now, a bustling eatery surrounded by businesses, hotels and shops. He wasn’t always planning to go into the restaurant business, however. A graduate of Decatur Central High School, Paynter grew up in a fairly poor area on the southwest side of Indianapolis. He was voted as one of the top 10 in his class most likely to succeed, but he was too busy working on schoolwork and side jobs to notice. “I was probably the poorest kid of all my buddies, but I always had money and I always had a car when they didn’t,” Paynter says. “It was because I worked.” He got drafted into the U.S. Army and moved away from home at the age of 19, where he got an apartment with a friend and experienced indoor plumbing, color TV, and stereo all for the first time. Though he and his roommate joined the army together, another buddy of theirs joined the Marine Corps. “He told us, ‘I just joined the Marine Corps. And going to California and you two hillbillies are going to Kentucky for basic training,’” Paynter recalls. “We said, ‘Hell, we’ve never been to California!’ and we joined the Marines together.” While in the Marines, Paynter served for 13 months in Vietnam, also spending some time on bases in North Carolina and California. Once home from the war, Paynter did the only thing he knew to do: worked. He went back to his factory job at a paint company. Paynter, who dubs himself more of a people person, was itching to get out of the factory setting. He moved on to a job selling insurance, and though he was good at it, he realized he didn’t fully believe in the product he was selling. After that, he decided to follow his tastes. “I liked my beer,” Paynter says. “I went to the Schlitz beer distributor looking for a job, but I ran into a Budweiser salesman. I got a job as a salesman and worked my way up to a Budweiser sales manager in 1976.”
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The next few years brought challenges, from a divorce from his wife of nine years to the passing of his mother in 1980. While he enjoyed his job, Paynter wasn’t one to pass up good opportunities. When a friend of his in the restaurant business invited Paynter to join him in the business, Paynter agreed. Together, they opened Coach & Horses Restaurant and Pub on the corner of Rockville Road and Raceway Road in Avon. “Things started popping,” Paynter says. He bought out his partner within the year. “We were at the right place at the right time,” Paynter says. When Coach and Horses opened, the closest fast-food restaurant was miles away at 10th Street and Girls School or clear out in Danville. But business was always booming, even with the limited space of 3,000 square feet. The amount of business Paynter did in that restaurant still baffles him. While he loved the work and owned the business himself, he didn’t own the property, which was his ultimate goal. He kept his eye out for the right location and the right time.
purchased the land and designed and built their own freestanding building,” Paynter says. “I am very proud of that.” The restaurant name is a nod to his menu from Coach and Horses, which touted a quarter pounder called the Breakman and a halfpounder called the Coachman. Though he had experience with Coach and Horses, Paynter says the opening of the Coachman was scary. “We had 95 employees and only 10 knew what they were doing,” he says. “It was right before Christmas when we opened, and it was the coldest winter I can remember with a week straight of -20 degree temperatures. But it wasn’t cold enough. There were just too many people.” The Coachman was packed that entire winter and never stopped. Soon, however, life happened again. Paynter’s wife was having health problems and his mother-in-law, a prep cook at the Coachman, passed away. It was time to take a step back. He sold Coach & Horse in 1998, and he has focused on the Coachman ever since.
It wasn’t long before fate made itself obvious. Out of the blue, two good friends of his - both named Larry - approached him. One was a builder and the other was a banker, and they were developing Cambridge Square in Plainfield, where the Coachman sits now. They had two partners: one named Larry and one named Gene, which is Paynter’s middle name.
If Paynter has learned anything, it’s that life comes unexpectedly, and opportunities must be seized.
“So that’s three Larry’s and a Gene,” Paynter says, holding up four fingers. “I figured somebody was trying to tell me something. It’s like somebody smacked me upside the head. They wanted me to build a restaurant there. Figured I should pay attention.”
He’s had numerous offers to sell the Coachman over the years, but Paynter says it’s not his to sell.
Not only was Paynter given the first option for where to build, but he also helped design the building and layout, most of which was built (and tweaked by an architect) per his request. He married his wife Becky in 1983, and she became a pivotal part of the restaurant, not only helping to design the building but also lending her kitchen expertise to the menu. “I could have never done this without Becky’s support,” Paynter says. “It’s a very tough business for relationships. She helped design the building, and she’s a great cook herself.” In fact, Becky still makes the menu’s homemade meatballs and bread puddings, contributing regularly to menu ideas and changes. The land was purchased in 1989, and the ground was broken on July 19 of that year with their grand opening of the Coachman taking place on December 17. “I know of no other independent restaurant owner that has actually
“I’ll tell you exactly what I know,” Paynter says. “If you’re fully staffed, you’re not going to be busy. If you’re short-staffed, you’ll be swamped.”
“The Coachman doesn’t just belong to me and my wife,” Paynter says. “It belongs to my employees, and it belongs to the town of Plainfield.” Paynter proves his commitment to the town by giving back in a variety of ways. He has served on the Board of the Plainfield Chamber of Commerce for years, the board of the Hendricks County Community Foundation, and he and his wife are heavily involved in funding a total of 24 Hendricks County food pantries. He established a fund called the Larry and Becky Paynter Never Go Hungry fund so that if something happens to them, money will continue to be put into that foundation. He also helped organize a golf outing for the mother of an employee, a Plainfield High School student who died suddenly of spinal meningitis. They reached their goal of raising $100,000 and starting a foundation to issue scholarships to students in the daughter’s honor each year. Brad DuBois, President of the Plainfield Chamber of Commerce, has known Paynter since 1990. DuBois owned a local golf shop at the time, and Paynter, looking to partner with local businesses, purchased much of his golf gear there. Paynter organized a golf
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outing every year for 30 years, connecting local business owners and donating money to local causes. He purchased the lion’s share of his door prizes at DuBois’ shop. “He’s a community guy, for sure,” DuBois says. “He gives to veterans, he gives to kids, he gives to everybody. He has a big heart.” While Paynter no longer serves on the board, DuBois says he shows up to many board meetings and still makes donations. He’s also involved with the Chamber Lunch Bunch, where they provide food for kids during the summer who normally are on free or reduced lunch during the school year. He also says Paynter is involved with the non-profit Gathering Together, helping raise funds for people transitioning from life to death. “He just takes care of people,” DuBois adds. “He is a good human being. There’s none better.” The Coachman Restaurant is located at 6112 Cambridge Way in Plainfield. You can give them a call at 317-839-4545 or visit them online for at thecoachmanrestaurant.com for more information.
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cookies or cupcakes either pink, blue or some neutral color. Games often include guessing the gender of what you think the baby might be, predicting the day of birth or learning old wives’ tales of boys versus girls. Finally, the reveal — is it a boy or a girl? If you are thinking of bringing a gift, it’s not necessary (unless it’s a shower and gender reveal in one). Thinking of throwing one? Let your sonographer know ahead of time that’s the plan, but you can always know and keep it a secret too. Bring an envelope if you don’t want to know and ask the sonographer to put the gender inside. At that point, you can give the envelope to a trusted friend or family member or give it directly to your baker/party planner. If you plan on doing a cake reveal, contact a local bakery and see if they accommodate your request.
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